How To Make A Curved Gingerbread Roof

Stsapph posted 15 dec 2008 4 44am.

How to make a curved gingerbread roof. Just in case that wasn t ambitious enough i also had the brilliant idea of making my gingerbread house with a curved roof and sides which taught me a very valuable lesson. Day 2 make your stiff royal icing assemble your gingerbread walls let dry for an hour assemble the gingerbread house details and add candy. Can you tell me how to achieve the shape. People also love these ideas.

Make sure that the total width of the segments is more than the 360 degrees circle to allow for shrinkage and some extra to cut the edges to fit. Then just lay the flexible silicone baking sheet on top place your rolled out gingerbread dough on top of that and bake as usual. Martha stewart makes a gingerbread house with a copper mansard roof modeled after a savannah georgia second empire house. Gingerbread house designs gingerbread house parties gingerbread village gingerbread decorations christmas gingerbread house gingerbread cookies sweet home candy house edible creations.

Pick the gingerbread up off the baking sheet still warm and pliable wear oven gloves and drape over the shaped metal. I love the downward curved roof. Curved gingerbread roof how to. Curved roof gingerbread house timeline day 1 make your foam core template bake your gingerbread pour in isomalt windows and let the pieces cool overnight.

Do you recommend cutting your shapes before or after the dough is baked. So for instance to make a curved roof you could just bend and fold the wire mesh to the right shape and place it on a sturdy cookie sheet. Saved by tessa scott. It will dry into the correct shape.

Doing it this way eliminates the problem of the gingerbread sliding off your metal shape in the oven. Curved things are not the way to go for a structurally sound dwelling. Hi im new to gingerbread house making.